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“This dull product of a scoffer's pen.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Excursion. Book ii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c90ac205c80e3426c5c5bc3943a82ff7c72dabe0c4051519f84a0772c1305f83
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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